PeacockMediaMIDISID
Use the sound of a legendary 8-bit chip in your music
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The SID ("Sound Interface Device") was designed for the 1982 Commodore 64 home computer. The designers went way further than they needed to for a home computer of the era and built a 'synthesizer on a chip' with three voices, each with a choice of four waveforms, ADSR, a filter and even ring modulation and waveform sync.
It has a very distinctive sound that is still loved today.
MIDISID uses two such chips (modern recreations - Kung Fu SIDs) to give six voices altogether, that can be combined in different ways. Three modes allow you to compose music in a DAW or standalone sequencer, play in .mid files or plug in a controller such as a MIDI keyboard. You can choose from preset sounds or dive into the parameters to create your own sounds.
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Includes:
- Fully built and tested
- Fitted with two Kung Fu SIDs
- Custom firmware, written from scratch for this project.
- A good manual which you can view / download here
Latest:
A new hardware version, codename Morpheus, is now ready and available for sale.
It has a larger screen, a revised menu, a new 'duophonic' mode, a physical 'stereo/mono' switch, USB-C socket, capable of acting as a USB host for MIDI-over-USB, now supplied with two Kung Fu SIDs rather than SwinSID nanos.
A video in which I demonstrate the new features is embedded below.
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